Palaeoloxodon falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant from the Middle Pleistocene (around 500–200,000 years ago) of Sicily and Malta. It is...
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(Tilos) P. mnaidriensis (Sicily and Malta) P. falconeri (Sicily and Malta) Other indeterminate dwarf Palaeoloxodon species are known from other Greek islands...
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dwarf elephants alongside the Sicillian-Maltese Palaeoloxodon falconeri. In comparison to P. falconeri, the teeth dimensions are somewhat smaller. The...
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000 years ago, which replaced the even smaller one-metre-tall Palaeoloxodon falconeri, which had descended from a separate colonisation of Sicily by...
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Cygnus falconeri is an extinct, very large swan known from Middle Pleistocene-aged deposits from Malta and Sicily. Its dimensions are described as exceeding...
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mostly members of the genus Palaeoloxodon, descending from the large 4 metres (13 ft) tall mainland European species Palaeoloxodon antiquus, though two species...
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including mammoths and Palaeoloxodon. Proboscideans include some of the largest known land mammals, with the elephant Palaeoloxodon namadicus and mastodon...
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size, such as the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall dwarf elephant species Palaeoloxodon falconeri. Elephants are the largest living terrestrial animals. The skeleton...
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largest known proboscidean alongside the extinct Indian elephant species Palaeoloxodon namadicus, and one of the largest land mammals to have ever lived. M...
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(though not heavier) than the contemporary local dwarf elephants (Palaeoloxodon falconeri). Subgenus Chenopis †New Zealand swan, Cygnus sumnerensis, an extinct...
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Palaeoloxodon falconeri skeletons, showing the large nasal orifice...
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Skeletons of the extinct Palaeoloxodon falconeri, native to Sicily and Malta, it is one of the smallest known species of dwarf elephant. Adult males measured...
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1874) Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) melitensis (Falconer, 1868) Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) falconeri (Busk, 1867)) Other Pleistocene animals found on these islands...
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musimon) Sheep (Ovis aries) Sicily Catania u Liotru/pygmy elephant (Palaeoloxodon falconeri) Messina Italian hare (Lepus corsicanus) Palermo Golden eagle (Aquila...
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species present on Sicily and Malta, alongside the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon falconeri, the large dormouse Maltamys, a shrew belonging to the genus Crocidura...
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elephant species Palaeoloxodon falconeri on Sicily and Malta, and also found the bones of the flightless giant swan Cygnus falconeri in Malta at Għar...
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are a Spinosaurus snout, the skeletons of two pygmy elephants (Palaeoloxodon falconeri) from Sicily and the only existing fossil of the coelurosaurian...
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antiquus and the dwarf elephants E. falconeri and E. cypriotes are now placed in the separate genus Palaeoloxodon, which is more closely related to African...
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Rhynchotherium. Other species subsequently assigned to Rhynchotherium included R. falconeri, R. paredensis, R. browni, and R. simpsoni. It was the closest relative...
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largest known perissodactyl, and the second largest land mammal (see Palaeoloxodon namadicus) of all time was the hornless rhino Paraceratherium. The largest...
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shown that these bones belong to Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus, Elephas mnaidriensis, and Elephas falconeri, so-called dwarf elephants from the Middle...
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Biswas, Chang & Tsai (2024) provide body mass estimates of specimens of Palaeoloxodon from Taiwan, determining the studied specimens to be similar in size...
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easternmost distribution in Eurasia of the species associated with the Eemian Palaeoloxodon antiquus assemblage". Mammal Review. 37 (3): 224–245. doi:10.1111/j...
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肉食性オオカミ化石Canis(Xenocyon)falconeri [The First Record of the Plio-Pleistocene Hypercarnivorous Canid, Canis (Xenocyon) falconeri (Mammalia; Carnivora), from...
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Galerian Cervus elaphus acoronatus Isernia Middle Galerian Panthera leo, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Mammuthus trogontherii, Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis, Megaloceros...
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(2021). A study on the age distribution and population structure of Palaeoloxodon huaihoensis from Penghu Channel (Taiwan), based on data from fossil...
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